are we all aware that august 4 2026 is There Will Come Soft Rains day
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
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are we all aware that august 4 2026 is There Will Come Soft Rains day
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
libraryofshortstories.com
hello friends. officially starting to look for work again. i have 12+ years of marketing/writing/editing/project management/ecommerce/CPG/etc. in-person in LA or remote anywhere else, if you hear of anything or have questions please DM!
years ago on twitter (rip) i wrote that trying to colonize other planets in order to mine them for resources immediately was tantamount to going into a library full of books nobody had ever read in order to burn them for fuel. i did not think that metaphor would ever become so literal
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.who here has heard the adage about how you should only eat oysters in months that have an "R" in their name
heat index 100 degrees, blinds drawn, watching x files, making seed bead bracelets, drinking cold hibiscus tea from a quart jar
what it feels like to be online in july 2026, by robert frost
mercury retrograde in cancer, aka going around like the narrator of anne sexton's "the poet of ignorance"
watched the eve 6 episode of the X files. i think all the eves would be great posters but eve 6 would be the best of them so it's nice that guy named his band after the right one
you ever wake up on a holiday weekend and think about how you're a member of the only cohort of people on earth to experience the silky, crinkling, ephemeral texture of coupon inserts in the sunday paper?
last night i dreamed my friend told me she'd never listened to phoebe bridgers and i was like omg girl, you have to!! and this morning i texted her like, haha isn't that crazy, and she was like, actually, i haven't ever listened to phoebe bridgers, i guess this is my sign? so: dreams DO come true
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Cold Ones w/ Comrades - special edition! Meet us at Wandering Leaf Brewing Co. on Friday, 6/26 at 5 pm. Great event if you're new to DSA, curious, or a seasoned member looking to hang out with comrades 🍻
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Books that Made Me Gay: "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice - The Rumpus
Decades before Stephenie Meyer shook up high schools worldwide with her anemic, Mormon vampires and years before Buffy ever kissed Spike, Anne Rice, the spiritual godmother to each beautifully insane ...
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among the many things i learned in this fascinating article by @dsamorod.bsky.social is that when you get sunburn a bunch of your skin cells have to decide whether to kill themselves or not :( www.quantamagazine.org/rna-is-the-c...
RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System | Quanta Magazine
How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger.
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i'm tired of data. no more data. we have enough information. time to know less. unshackle yourself from the desire to Track everything. let discrete point after discrete point flow through your grasp like sand
it is hilarious to me when i receive opt-out emails for mother's day and father's day. i get that this is meant to be compassionate capitalism i.e. companies do not want to inadvertently negatively polarize a customer against their brand by reminding them of grief or pain. but like. come on
rereading doris lessing's the golden notebook hits different after seven years of active political organizing work
coen brothers movie about the twin cities rapid transit company—ideally the 1917 streetcar strikes but i'd also take the corrupt decline and fall era
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s your white whale tv/film adaptation that needs to happen
my eyesight has improved since the last time i got my eyes checked, so nobody can tell me shit
if there's one thing i do not want to do in this life, it's create another username and password
thinking about old country buffet. why wasn't that place Old Country themed. bring it back but give it a pale of settlement twist
